For conspicuous bravery during the engagement with the Boers
at the Majuba Mountain, on the 27th February, 1881, when he
showed a spirit of self abnegation and an example of cool
courage which cannot be too highly commended. While the Boers
closed with the British troops near the wells, Corporal Farmer
held a white flag over the wounded, and when the arm holding the
flag was shot through, he called out that he had "another." He
then raised the flag with the other arm, and continued to do so
until that also was-pierced with a bullet.